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There's a wide range of public transport vehicles on Kenya's roads. Alongside the flashy air-conditioned coaches tearing up one or two of the main highways, you'll find smaller "country bus" companies operating a single battered Leyland. In towns of any size, a whole crowd of Nissan minibuses and pick-ups (both referred to as matatus) and Peugeot taxis hustle for business constantly.
Kenya has a number of reasonably priced internal flights, and is well worth seeing from the air at least once; the flight from Malindi to Lamu is an especially exotic and exhilarating one over reefs and jungle.
Trains nearly always leave right on time; buses often have punctual departures as well. In more remote areas though, if a driver tells you he's going somewhere "today", it doesn't necessarily mean he expects to arrive today.
A quick roundup of regional travel details is given at the end of each chapter. Transport booking numbers are given in the "Practicalities", "Moving on" or "Listings" sections for each town.
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